FirmhandKY
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Sarah Palin is a working mom with five kids who managed to become Governor of her state. Now Palin has been confronted with the great fear, and for many, the difficult reality of a pregnant teenage daughter. Sarah Palin lived by a code and tried to have her kids live by it as well. Did she fail?
Maybe she did. But as many parents know, you do the best you can with your children.
The Left will fight this battle as a political debate. They will argue that Bristol Palin proves their assertions about traditionalism. They will lay it out point by point. The evidence will be solid. And their case will make sense — in theory.
But this is not theory, and to a certain extent its not even politics, this is life. Steve Schmidt is not wrong when in reaction to the news he says, “Life happens.”
Life does happen. It happens again and again to people in rural America who go to church, work and pray hard. Everyday life happens. Despite their prayers, it happens.
Firm
Sorry, Firm, but as someone who leans Libertarian, all I can say is this piece you posted is a bunch of backstepping bullshit from a party in deep trouble.
Should Bristol's predicament keep her mom out of the running? No. Should Sarah Palin, as a VP, promote legislation that limits other American families to abstinence-only sex education choices when abstinence-only failed in her own household? Absolutely not. That would be akin Bill Clinton pushing his views on marriage, legislatively, onto everyone else in this country right on the heels of the Lewinski debacle. Enough with this "kids will be kids" or "its a human story" or "parents try" backstepping nonsense.
Republicans run around fear mongering that the Democrats are going to socialize healthcare. Yet socialized medicine in this country remains a hypothetical. The republicans however, through lack of regulatory oversight, have inadvertently socialized the housing market in this country. That is happening for real, and is not a hypothetical. It is outrageous for any Republican to argue that Democrats are the only socialists in town. But I do understand. Its crisis-driven behavior.
When the Cato Insitute, a right wing, pro-free markets, pro-liberty think tank opines 4 years ago that Democrat Bill Clinton was a fiscal genius, and Republican George W Bush is a fiscal turd, something is terribly wrong with the core of the Republican party.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4564
Thanks to the prescription drug bill, Bush has been responsible for the biggest expansion of Johnson's "great society" in the past 30 years.
We appear to be going through another one of those political shifts that happen every so often, where the Republican brand name is now equating to more traditional Democrat ideals (loss of personal freedoms in trade for security, big government, debt buildup) and where the Democrat brand name now is equating to the more traditional Republican, Goldwater-esque areas (personal privacy protection, non-interventionist foreigh policy, small government, low debt).
And until the foot soldier noisemakers (like good ole Firm) realize that, the saga for the Republicans only gets more humorous and tragic at the same time.
DD40,
You are making many assumptions on facts not in evidence.
The first assumption is that I wrote what you quoted above. Either you are being disingenious or did not catch that it was a quote from another source.
The issue from the article that I quote in the OP was to highlight that the attacks on Palin do not particular serve the left in the way that they anticipate.
The second assumption is that I disagree with the basic theme of your post. I actually agree with much of your thesis (not all).
A third false assumption on your part is that I'm some kind of "footsoldier noisemaker", especially for the Republican party.
And I would also say that your assumption that you are a libertarian, and that I'm not is also incorrect, depending on how you define the terms.
I do agree that there appears to have been a basic shift in the Republican party over the last 8 years (whether or not it was situational and temporary, or permanent is open to debate). I do not consider Bush or his administration much of any kind of "conservative" in many areas, and have a lot of heart burn with so-called "compassionate" big government Republicanism. I wasn't particularly upset when the Dem's gained control of the Congress (because I think many of the elected Republicans deserted conservative ideals, and I'd just as soon have a left-leaning Congress that made no bones about it, than a self-styled conservative Congress that didn't act like it.)
I don't think McCain is much of a conservative either.
The two things that the Republicans did right over the last few years was the Supreme Court appointments, and the fight against Islamic terrorism. For those two reasons, I've supported them, despite my distaste of much else going on.
I think the Republicans will continue the war on terror. I hope McCain will do the right thing in the Supreme Court (although not particular expecting it).
I also think that there is a chance of the party returning to real conservative roots. Palin may be that vehicle.
The Dems? I disagree with almost all of your assessment of where they are headed. To the contrary, I think the Dems are in deep trouble in the long term, and we would have no hope of reduced government influence in our daily lives. I think a Democratic guided future for the US would be disastrous.
Despite your many false assumptions, however, I do think you for your thoughtful post.
Best wishes.
Firm
< Message edited by FirmhandKY -- 9/4/2008 11:01:03 AM >
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